Thursday, September 8, 2016

Produced by Auckland based Tangent Photography Collective, this 27 minute documentary - Pictures on Paper - looks at the photobook from the perspective of seven NZ based practitioners: David Cook, Haru Sameshima, Ann Shelton, Solomon Mortimer, Shelley Jacobson, Anita Totha and Harvey Benge. Tangent say this - A look at the photobook phenomenon through the eyes of some of New
Zealand's most respected photographers and book makers, this film hopes
to inform, inspire and help to start a wider conversation about this
burgeoning art form."
The doco is well worth a look if you wanted proof that The Photobook is alive and well in New Zealand. You can find Pictures on PaperHERE.

About Me

My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
http://harveybenge.com/
email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz